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farm purchased at the East, with which I am 

 familiar. The inquiry as herein set forth, may 

 possibly help him to an intelligible decision. 



There may be learned from it, I think — 

 First : that with unlimited means, and the sim- 

 ple wish to lavish them in country employ- 

 ments, it matters very little where a man may 

 establish himself, or what special whim he 

 adopts — whether for fine cattle, or horticultu- 

 ral successes; but he may be assured that he 

 will win no confirmed triumph in either one 

 or the other, without having a personal love 

 for the business and a knowledge of it, or 

 without employing, invariably, those who do 

 have such love or knowledge. 



Second: it may be fairly inferred that a 

 fifty-acre purchase is not necessarily a bad 

 affair, even if the purchaser is not personally 

 competent to direct operations, provided he 

 has the shrewdness to avail himself of the ex- 

 perience and good common-sense of those who 

 have the competency. 



Third: it may be learned that all the the- 

 ories about drainage, and particularly breeds, 

 and the blasting away of rocky fastnesses, and 

 the use of concentrated manures will avail 

 nothing, except they be under the direction, 

 and subject to the execution of a thoroughly 



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